Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer to visit San Francisco for Commonwealth Club talk

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 30: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks to the media in the briefing room at the White House, on May 30, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 30: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks to the media in the briefing room at the White House, on May 30, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 30: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks to the media in the briefing room at the White House, on May 30, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 30: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks to the media in the briefing room at the White House, on May 30, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer to visit San Francisco for Commonwealth Club talk

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Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who spoke at frequent briefings on behalf of President Donald Trump during the administration's first year in office, will appear in San Francisco this summer for an onstage conversation with the Commonwealth Club. Spicer will be promoting his new book, "The Briefing."

The event, which is open to the public, will take place at the Marines' Memorial Theatre on Sutter Street in San Francisco on August 2. Per the organization, Spicer will "take (guests) behind the scenes of his turbulent tenure as President Trump's press secretary, shedding new light on the headline-grabbing controversies of the Trump administration's first year."

Spicer was appointed Trump's press secretary ahead of the president's inauguration, but some time later he was also named the administration's acting communications director. He served in both roles until July 2017, when he resigned after disagreeing with Trump's hiring of Anthony Scaramucci as his replacement for communications director. Although Spicer had been asked to stay on as press secretary, he declined the offer and was replaced by Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (Scaramucci, as it happened, was fired 10 days later.)

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Spicer's tenure in the White House was controversial; he was considered combative and was accused of lying on the president's behalf — claims that he denies — about things sometimes as petty as the crowd size at Trump's inauguration. That now infamous interaction helped prompt a parody of a White House daily briefing on "Saturday Night Live," in which Spicer was portrayed by Melissa McCarthy.